TOKYO – South Korea is taking Milton Friedman’s “never let a crisis go to waste” edict to new heights — literally. In his 1962 book “Capitalism and Freedom”, the Nobel laureate argued that emergencies are the perfect moment to implement destabilizing but necessary reforms — when everyone is off balance. Case in point: the Iran war. […] The post Seoul harnessing Iran war to end the ‘Korea discount’ appeared first on Asia Times .